The Price of Success in Rodriguez's "The Achievement of Desire" "When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees" Kennet Kaunda "The Achievement of Desire" in Richard Rodriguez's view does not express the happiness and satisfaction that the fulfillment of a goal such as becoming literate would normally provide, but it is wrapped in irony and connotes the sense of failure and disappointment. Even though "local boy made good," …showed first 75 words of 1977 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1977 total…Achievement of Desire" Richard Rodriguez attempts to describe the nature of his achievement. "If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking and caring about that fact." "Was it worthy?" The conclusion that derives from the text is that one cannot accomplish anything unless they put effort and passion in it and they are prepared to take all the risks it pays.